When I was a boy, our extended, immigrant fam...

When I was a boy, our extended, immigrant family would sometimes gather at my aunt’s tiny house over the summer. Relatives from all over the country would come in to visit. The adults would crowd together in the living room to talk and catch up on each other' s lives. And the kids would be sent out into the front yard to play when dinner was slowly cooked for all of us.

Those were the days before video games, smart phones, and motorized toys, so we often ended up playing an old game. I remember one of those moments especially. As I was the youngest and smallest of all the kids there, I got caught first and couldn't catch anyone else. My brothers and cousins were all too fast for me, and I grew more and more frustrated. I finally fell my face first into the dirt. I got up with tears forming in my eyes. Then I saw one of my female cousins Susan standing there. She started to run but was going much slower than before. I easily caught up and seized her. Then she turned to me, smiled, and said, I'm it! You d better run! Iran off laughing with glee while she turned and started to chase others.

Now I see how her act of kindness that day saved me from sadness and returned me to joy. It didn't matter that we hardly ever saw each other. I know we are family and she loves me.

In her wonderful book: Box of Butterflies, Roma Downey writes, "We are all one, we all belong to each other, and we are one big. beautiful family." Perhaps it is time that we all started to treat each other that way. Perhaps it is time that we shared our love, our kindness, our laughter, and our joy with everyone without fear. Perhaps it is time to finally and forever bring this world together in one big family reunion.

1.When the adults were chatting, the kids would__________.

A.play video games B.sit in the front yard

C.learn to cook dinner D.play traditional games

2.The author was able to catch Susan because________.

A.the others ran too fast B.the author was good at running

C.Susan gave her a chance D.Susan wanted to chase others

3.What can be inferred from the passage?

A.The author is grateful for hat Susan did to her.

B.The author cant meet Susan any more.

C.The author urges others to love their family.

D.The author believes the world will become a big family

4.What could be the best title of the passage?

A.A memory of my childhood. B.Sharing of goodness unites us.

C.Kindness brightens our life. D.A good deed is invaluable.

高二英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析

When I was a little girl, every Sunday my family of six would put on our best clothes and go to Sunday School and then church. The __21__ in elementary school would all meet together to sing songs, and then later divide into groups based __22__ their ages.

One Easter Sunday, all the kids __23__ with big __24__ about what the Easter Bunny(复活节兔子) had brought. __25__ all of the kids shared their stories with __26__, one young boy, whom I should call Bobby, sat __27__. One of the teachers, noticing this, said to him, “And what did the Easter Bunny __28__ you?” He replied, “My mum __29__ the door by accident so the Easter Bunny couldn’t get __30__ because he hadn’t got a key.”

This sounded like a __31__ idea to all of us kids, so we kept on going with the stories. My mom knew the true story, __32__. Bobby’s mom was a single parent, and she suspected(怀疑) that they just couldn’t __33__ the Easter Bunny.

After Sunday School was over, everyone went off to __34__. But my mom announced that we were going home __35__. At home, she explained that to make Bobby feel __36__, we were going to pretend to be the Easter Bunny, make a basket of our candies for him and __37__ it at church. We all donated some to the basket, and _38__ back to church. There, mom hung the basket over the hanger(挂钩) and attached a(n) __39__:

Dear Bobby,

I’m sorry I __40__ your house last night. Happy Easter!

Love,

The Easter Bunny

高二英语完型填空简单题查看答案及解析

I am Sergey Brin! I was born in Moscow. In 1979,when I was 5, my family immigrated to California, USA . I remember that on my 9^th birthday, I got my first computer “Commodore 64”.

Later I graduated with honors in the University of Maryland in Mathematics and IT. The main field of my science research was the technologies used to collect data from unsystematic sources as well as large quantities of texts and science data. I was the author of dozens of articles in leading American academic magazines.

The greatest event in my life happened when in 1998 I was preparing for the defense(论文答辩) of my Doctor’s degree in the Stanford University. There the fate made me meet Larry Page—a young computer genius. Larry belonged to the intellectual society. I and Larry quickly became friends when we were working together.

We were searching day and night on the Internet. We were finding a lot of information but with the feeling we still couldn’t find enough of what we were looking for . Naturally the idea for a search engine that would allow specific information to be found in the endless pool of data was born like it came to us. It wasn’t our plans but we gave up the education at the university. You know the next part ,maybe—we managed to turn an ordinary garage in Peplo Park, California , the USA into our first office, in which Google was born. With excitement we typed the name of the thing which we created with love on September 14^th,1998—www.Google.com. Now after those years we bought this garage. As a symbol it will always remind us that everything is possible.

1.Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?

2.From the passage we know that Larry Page________.

3.Why did they found Google ?

4.Which is the right order of what happened ?

a. My family moved from Russia to the USA

b. I met Larry Page

c. I was given a computer as a present on my 9^th birthday.

d. google was born in an ordinary garage in California.

e. I graduated from the university in Mathematics and IT.

高二英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析

I am Sergey Brin! I was born in Moscow. In 1979, when I was 5, my family immigrated to the United States. I remember that on my 9th birthday I got my first computer “Commodore 64”.

Later I graduated with honors in the University of Maryland in Mathematics and IT. The main field of my science research was the technologies used to collect data from unsystematic sources as well as large quantities of texts and science data. I was the author of dozens of articles in leading American academic magazines.

The greatest event in my life happened when in 1998 I was preparing for the defense（论文答辩）of my Doctor’s degree in Stanford University. There the fate made me meet Larry Page—a young computer genius. Larry belonged to the intellectual society. Larry and I quickly became friends when we worked together.

We were searching day and night on the Internet. We were finding a lot of information but with the feeling we still couldn’t find enough of what we were looking for. Naturally the idea for a search engine that would allow specific information to be found in the endless pool of data was born like it came to us. It wasn’t our plans but we gave up the education at the university. You know the next part, maybe we managed to turn an ordinary garage in Meplo Park, California, the U. S. A. into our first office, in which Google was born. With excitement we typed the name of the thing which we created with love on September 14th 1998—www. google.com. Now, after those years we bought this garage. As a symbol it will always remind us that everything is possible.

1.Sergey Brin actually graduated from ＿＿＿.

A. the University of Maryland         B. the University of Moscow

C. the University of California         D. Stanford University

2. From the passage we know that Larry Page ______.

A. was Brin’s important partner in starting Google

B. was born in a rich merchant family

C. was once a student in the University of Maryland

D. was a professor from Stanford University

3. Which is the right order of what happened?

a. My family moved from Russia to the U. S. A.

b. I met Larry Page.

c. I was given a computer as a present on my 9^th birthday.

d. Google was born in an ordinary garage in California.

A. c-a-b-d                    B. c-b-a-d            C. a-c-b-d                          D. a-c-d-b

4.Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?

A. The History of Google                         B. The Great Contribution of Google

C. The Great Success of Google                    D. The Birth of Google

5. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. The main field of my science research was computer.

B. I wrote many articles in leading American magazines.

C. Larry is one of my classmates.

D. When I was 5, I got my first computer “Commodore 64”.

高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

When the novelist Luis Alberto Urrea was 14 or 15, he took a trip deep into Mexico. He was born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and a white American mother before moving just across the border and eventually into the San Diego suburbs. But his father thought he was becoming “too American,” and took him on a 27-hour journey to Mazatian. Along the way, his father gave him a paperback copy of The Godfather and told him it would change his life. “I don't think he was trying to make a case for us being criminals,” Urrea says, “but he really felt this incredible connection to the family and the traditions and the honor for the old country, as people were making their way in the U.S.”

In his new novel The House of Broken Angels, Urrea has written his own opinion on the Godfather story with a Mexican-American Don Corleone figure at its center. The story takes place over two days, as Big Angel de la Cruz buries his mother and celebrates his final birthday party on earth; he knows he's dying, and he's gathered his extended family around him for a noisy and lively goodbye.

The idea was inspired by the final birthday party of Urrea's elder brother three years ago. “Everybody was jammed in his backyard, and there was a DJ and people dancing and consuming a serious amount of American junk food-they didn't want Mexican food, they wanted KFC and pizza. I thought, where are the tacos (a kind of Mexican tood), guy? And my brother sat in his little chair in the middle of it. People were coming to him and kneeling, and they would thank him and kiss his hand or touch his head and tell him all the ways he had changed their lives.”

Urrea's brother died of cancer within two weeks at 74, and the heartbreaking event haunted the author. He considered writing a memoir(回忆录)about it-“I was thinking about Truman Capote, when he did those tiny books about Christmas and Thanksgiving.” But his wife encouraged him to aim bigger. When he found himself seated next to the writer Jim Harrison at a dinner event, he shared the story, and Harrison said, “Sometimes God hands you a novel. You have to write it.” Urrea thought to himself “Marching orders from Jim Harrison-this is good stuff. A kid from Tijuana doesn't get that very often.”

The House of Broken Angels is a celebration of the Mexican-American family, but it also includes moments of frustration with this country's treatment of the immigrant group. Before he got too sick to work, Big Angel worked in an office and drank coffee from a cup that read BOSS. “Yeah, the employees all got the message,” Urrea writes. “The Mexican-American was calling himself their boss.” In a grocery store, a woman screams at two of his family members that they'll be kicked out of the country soon. “I had to bite down on the bitterness of my rage(愤怒),man!” Urrea says. “I was having some pretty serious response to Donald Trump's confusing and empty talk. But you know, it may have shocked a lot of the United States to hear this kind of empty talk and this bald-faced racialism of politics all of a sudden, but to us, this stuff isn't a surprise?”

“I really wanted to write a tribute(致敬)to my brother, to my family and to us, but it's also a love song to the country,”Urrea says. “I think people have this weird, horrible view...that immigrants are evil snakes. People don't understand that immigration is truly a statement of love for this country, whatever the country represents. People want to be here and work.” And with persistence, they become the boss.

1.Why did Urrea's father give him the book The Godfather?

A.He wanted Urrea to enjoy the 27-hour journey. B.He thought the book had changed his own life.

C.He tried to show Urrea a real case of criminals. D.He hoped Urrea would feel connected to Mexico.

2.The question “where are the tacos, guy?” in Paragraph 3 probably suggests______.

A.Mexican traditions have been left behind B.the people like American junk food best

C.it is difficult to buy the Mexican food D.the tacos are popular with everyone there

3.We can learn from Paragraph 5 that______.

A.Big Angel himself was the boss of his office B.Mexican immigrants were treated unfairly

C.Urrea's family were kicked out of the country D.Urrea heard Trump's talk ahead of time

4.The House of Broken Angels mainly focuses on the novelist's______.

A.love for the Mexican-American family B.life in the Mexican-American family

C.mixed feelings towards American people D.mature reflection on Mexican traditions

高二英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析

When my three boys were young, our summer vacation consisted of driving the nine hours to my parents' place in Maine, where I grew up. While we loved those visits, the truth is we couldn't afford to go anywhere else. My husband, David, and I had finally saved up enough to buy our first home. We'd even made an agreement: We wouldn't spend more than $ 100 without consulting each other.

On one of those holidays, I took the boys to the local library, where a silent auction was underway. I was attracted by one item: Shot nearby, on the rocky coast, the photo was naturalistic, capturing the characteristic of the young subjects and the beauty of my home state. Up for bid: a session with the photographer.

In a hurry, I wrote down my name on the sign-up sheet, half sure that my offer of $ 500 would be topped. It wasn't. And though I felt bad about breaking my agreement with David, I was happy with my bid won.

The morning of the shoot, we put the kids into the car and drove to a favorite beach. The photographer, already standing in the parking lot with a camera around her neck, started snapping pictures the minute they got out of their car seats. She gently tried to persuade the boys forward, leading them to gather around a rock pool.

When the contact sheet arrived, I knew it had been worth the money. In the photos each boy's personality shone clearly.

More than a dozen years later, the portrait is a touchstone for me, a key to understanding who my children are. The photograph is a piece of art and a piece of our family history, worth every penny.

1.What was the author doing when she got to the silent auction?

A.She was prepared to take a picture. B.She was much annoyed by the boys.

C.She was alone wandering in a library. D.She was suddenly appealed to by an item.

2.What does the author think of the photographer?

A.Beautiful B.Patient C.Elegant D.Courageous

3.What can be inferred from the passage?

A.The contact sheet was not entirely unexpected.

B.The couple might have quarreled a great deal.

C.The couple thought they could take better photos.

D.The picture was greatly cherished by the author.

4.What's the best title of this passage?

A.The Best Gift the Woman Ever Bought B.The Poor Life the Woman's Family Lived

C.The Lovely Children the Couple Had D.The Influence the Picture Brought

高二英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析

阅读下面短文,根据所给情节进行续写,使之构成一个完整的故事。

In 2000, when I was around seven years old, my parents, sister, brother, and I were coming back from a picnic. That was our usual weekend adventure, but unlike every other weekend, a surprise was waiting for us in our driveway. There, we saw two adult geese (鹅) and a young goose. The adults were surprised by our return and flew away, but their baby was still too young to fly and couldn’t follow. We are no strangers to the ways of wildlife, so we knew to avoid physical contact with the young goose out of fear that it would stay with us and be lost to its family forever.

Hours passed, and night fell. With it came the coldness. The tiny little thing was walking around our yard and it was clear that the goose needed protection and warmth. At that point, we knew we had to help, аnd wе brоught hіm іntо оur bасk роrсh (门廊).

We all pretty much slept with one eye open till morning came. And then another morning. And still another. Each morning, we would try to shoo (赶走) the goose to his parents, who kept coming back to our yard. He wouldn’t go to them, though, and they wouldn’t come close enough to take him. We kept this up for five days, but no luck. By then, the young goose had clearly decided we were his new family, so we had to give him a name. My sister Joanna called him Peeper, because he would follow us around the yard making a peeping noise, nonstop. We also decided that Peeper was a boy. I don’t know why; it just felt right.

Days turned into weeks, and weeks turned into months until almost a year passed. Peeper slept in our back porch each night. My dad would clean all the goose droppings daily. He would throw Peeper up into the air so he could fly a loop (圈) around the house, coming back again once the porch was clean.

注意：

1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右；

2.应使用5个以上短文中标有下划线的关键词语；

3.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；

4.续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。

Paragraph 1:

One evening, my dad threw Peeper up in the air as usual, but this time, Peeper just flew off._________________________________________

Paragraph 2:

It came as a total shock to me when, in 2019, an aging adult goose made his way back to my family home. ____________

高二英语读后续写困难题查看答案及解析

As a young boy my family was very poor. I would often help do something for the neighbors to 　　 a little pocket money.

One day I 　　 on the door of an elderly woman and asked if she needed me to clean the yard. She asked why I was not in 　 　　 and I showed her my worn coat, which no longer kept me warm. She 　 　 　　 me to work in the yard. When I finished, she looked at me and said, “I suppose you want to be 　 　 　　 now.” She then took out a jar filled with dollar bills and said, “I’m glad you’ve done a　 　 　　 job today but that is not something you should be doing again. I want you to　 　　 new clothes and get back to school. I also want you to come back to 　 　　 　 me with your report card and I will 　 　　 you when I see you have worked hard and have some good 　 　 　　 . Now reach out your little hands and take out as much 　 　　 as you can.”

I put my hands in the jar and grabbed so much money that it was 　 　　 for me to buy what I badly needed. Later, I returned several times to see the woman and she did just as she 　 　　 　 . She looked at my report card and gave me a handful of dollars and some delicious food every time showed her that I had an “A”.

I was twelve years old when I moved from that neighborhood. I will never forget the huge 　 　　 this wonderful lady made over my life with her 　 　 　　 . This is something I hope to do myself in this lifetime over and over again.

1.A. save　　　 　 B. give　　　　　　 C. earn　　　　 　　 D. change

2.A. turned　　 　 　 B. knocked　　 C. worked　　 　　　 D. looked

3.A. school　 　 　 　 B. time　　　　 C. trouble　　　　 　 　 　 D. bed

4.A. allowed 　　 B. forced　　　　　 C. helped　　　　　 　　 D. stopped

5.A. punished　　　　 B. tested　　　　　 C. praised　　　　　　 　 D. paid

6.A. boring　　　　 B. new　　　　　 C. fine　　　　　　　　 D. terrible

7.A. keep　　　　　　 B. buy　　　　　　 C. remove　　　 D. make

8.A. visit　　　　　　 B. forgive　　　　 C. welcome　　　　　 D. serve

9.A. recognize　　　　 B. reward　　　　 C. understand　　　　 　　 D. protect

10.A. goals　　　　　　 B. stories　　　 　　 C. marks　　　　　　　 　　 D. ideas

11.A. room　　　　　　 B. money　　　　 C. food　　　　　　 　　　 D. time

12.A. rare　　　 B. enough　　 C. simple　　 　　　 D. special

13.A. promised　　 B. discovered　　 C. knew　　　　 D. admitted

14.A. decision　　 B. progress　　　　 C. mistake　　　　　　 　 D. difference

15.A. courage　　 B. kindness　　　　 C. honesty　　　　 D. happiness

高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Growing up in an Italian-American household was, for me, pretty special. My mother, Gina, an immigrant from Calabria, held on to so many of her family's traditions that at times, regardless of the fact that I was living in the United States, our home felt like part of Italy.

To this day, my mother only speaks to me in Italian, and our conversations are, for the most part, in her mother tongue. And most of those conversations are about food. For us, food — Italian food — is an important part of our lives.

My mom Gina grew up on a farm where the fruits of their labor directly turned into the food on the table, and wasting any of it was unacceptable. Every day was “Thanksgiving” because times were tough, so food — and how it found its way onto the table ——was a holy matter. One of the greatest lessons my mother taught me in the kitchen is to cook what you have on hand, and to never let anything go to waste.

So, when I take a perfect little arancini(意大利饭团)out of the hot oil. I am immediately transported back to my childhood: I am a little girl getting off the bus and running through the back door to the smell of the food. This small snack symbolizes so many important tenements(经济公寓)in my life about my heritage(传承)through food.

Heritage food is Sunday dinner with the family. When we preserve and recreate dishes like that, we feel a sense of pride and also a sense of continuity. Heritage food is the love we receive from our parents and grandparents, and it's the love we in turn give to our children and grandchildren. Heritage food is food that makes you feel safe and protected wherever and whenever you eat it.

Eating arancini, and all the other recipes my mother continues to make here in the U.S. after leaving Italy, allow her to teach me who I am, where I come from, and why I should be proud of it all.

1.What can we know about the author's mom?

A.She is very strict with her children.

B.She refuses to learn to speak English.

C.She thinks her life in the U.S. special.

D.She values her family's traditions a lot.

2.What does the author imply by mentioning “Thanksgiving” in paragraph 3?

A.She enjoyed the food her mother cooked.

B.This holiday was very important for her mother.

C.Her family treasured the food that didn't come easily.

D.The food was delivered to her family on Thanksgiving.

3.What does the author think of heritage food?

A.It is becoming popular among American families.

B.It passes on family love from generation to generation.

C.It offers a sense of safety when one lives in America.

D.It reminds parents to take good care of their children.

高二英语阅读选择中等难度题查看答案及解析

When I was a small boy my family was very poor. My father always used his savings to ____ my mother to visit her parents who lived far away. There was just my younger brother and myself in the house. One evening Dad came home from ____ and there was no food in the house, not ____ a piece of bread. Although we were ____, my brother and I went to bed without eating anything.

My father had no money, but l knew from the ____ on his face that he could not let us have an empty stomach. He ____ the house and about two hours later returned and quickly ____ us up. He had in his hand two small potato pies, which he gave us to eat. I don’t know where he got the ____ but somehow he ____ to get us something to eat.

My father had not eaten and had worked all day ____ he sat there with great satisfaction watching us eat. This has ____ stayed in my mind and left more of an impression than any amount of ____ he may ever have given me.

At that moment, l felt happy knowing that he was there and would not let us ____.

I guess the ____ I am trying to make is that in difficult times it is ____ not to show weakness but strength and character. If a ____ is the cement（粘合剂）that holds a family together, then the father is ____ that strengthens that cement.

It is his values and ____ and memories that have carried me forward and helped me to ____ my own problems in life. In my own ____ I have learned that it is the valuable time you spend with your children and the values you give to them that will remain with them always.

1.A. force　　 B. remind　　 C. send　　 D. teach

2.A. hospital　　 B. work　　 C. school　　 D. shop

3.A. quite　　 B. just　　 C. only　　 D. even

4.A. nervous　　 B. hungry　　 C. sleepy　　 D. busy

5.A. worry　　 B. pleasure　　 C. disappointment　　 D. surprise

6.A. cleaned　　 B. observed　　 C. left　　 D. searched

7.A. brought　　 B. put　　 C. called　　 D. woke

8.A. chance　　 B. food　　 C. support　　 D. recipe

9.A. managed　　 B. decided　　 C. agreed　　 D. waited

10.A. so　　 B. or　　 C. but　　 D. and

11.A. normally　　 B. always　　 C. shortly　　 D. softly

12.A. cost　　 B. time　　 C. salary　　 D. money

13.A. suffer　　 B. know　　 C. leave　　 D. cry

14.A. decision　　 B. promise　　 C. point　　 D. apology

15.A. strange　　 B. important　　 C. difficult　　 D. common

16.A. father　　 B. brother　　 C. sister　　 D. mother

17.A. something　　 B. anything　　 C. everything　　 D. nothing

18.A. words　　 B. records　　 C. actions　　 D. failures

19.A. work out　　 B. carry out　　 C. run into　　 D. look into

20.A. opinion　　 B. home　　 C. order　　 D. turn

高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析